My favorite figure of the American author is that of a man who breeds a favorite dog, which he throws into the Mississippi River f...or the pleasure of making a splash. The river does not splash, but it drowns the dog.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoro...ughness and quality, for accuracy and context. The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I am ...resolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The one-hand downward loose shake of weary relinquishment; the two-hand dramatic splash of amazed distress; and the "disjunctive" ...motion--hands traveling apart to signify helpless passivity. And in conclusion, very slowly, Pnin showed how, in the international "shaking the finger" gesture, a half turn, as delicate as the switch of the wrist in fencing, metamorphosed the Russian solemn symbol of pointing up, "the Judge in Heaven sees you!" into a German air picture of the stick--"something is coming to you!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »